At Metis Ventures, we back founders who collapse complexity and expand what’s possible for industries, teams, or consumers. Wasp is doing exactly that for modern web apps.

Wasp is an open-source, full-stack web framework that lets developers build complex, workflow-centric applications with dramatically less effort. It handles the repetitive, boilerplate code that typically slows down development and works seamlessly with most popular technologies among developers today. As engineering teams face growing pressure to ship faster with leaner resources (especially in an era of AI-accelerated development) Wasp fills a critical gap in the modern development stack.

Here’s why we believe it matters:

1. A 10× productivity unlock for full‑stack teams

Building a serious web product still means gluing together React, Node.js, Prisma, auth, deployment scripts and more. Wasp turns that hassle into a single declarative file that it compiles into the familiar stack developers already love. Teams ship workflow‑heavy apps - CRMs, trading dashboards, bio‑informatics portals—in days rather than weeks.

2. Traction that’s impossible to ignore

Since launching, Wasp has grown to 40 000 + apps created and 26 000+ GitHub stars (across 2 repos), making it one of 2024’s fastest‑growing open‑source communities. Enterprise engineering teams are already running Wasp in production - proof that the framework scales from side projects to Fortune 500 workloads.

3. AI‑ready by design

Because Wasp is written in a high‑level, declarative language, it’s naturally legible to AI co‑pilots and autonomous code agents. As AI moves from pair‑programmer to primary author, frameworks that expose clean intent layers (not miles of boilerplate) will win - and Wasp is built for that future.

4. Founders who’ve lived the pain

Twin brothers Matija Šošić (CEO) and Martin Šošić (CTO) are deeply technical founders with a rare blend of startup scrappiness and scale experience. Before Wasp, they worked at fast-growing companies like LifeBit and Photomath, next to also building two ventures of their own. They went through Y Combinator’s W21 batch with Wasp. Their experience wrestling with fragmented tooling led them to build a better way - and the strength of their vision shows in a thriving open-source community with contributions from engineers at Google, Microsoft, and beyond.

Wasp previously raised a pre-seed round from HV Capital, Y Combinator, Lunar Ventures, and others. We’re excited to now join as part of their seed round, alongside HV Capital, Fifth Quarter Ventures, Big Bets, and a group of exceptional angels -including the co-founder and CTO of Supabase and the CEO of Prisma. You can read more from the founders’ perspective in their TechCrunch feature.

We believe Wasp has the potential to become the go-to framework for building business-critical, workflow-centric apps in the AI-powered era. We’re proud to be on this ride with the team - and we can’t wait to see what gets built next.